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Aftershock
After immobilizing an enemy champion, increase your Armor and Magic Resist by 35 + 80% of your Bonus Resists for 2.5s. Then explode, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies.
Damage: 25 - 120 (+8% of your bonus health)
Cooldown: 20s
Resistance bonus from Aftershock capped at: 80-150 (based on level)Why?
Aftershock's massive early-mid game tankiness allows you to trade aggressively without risking your life to do so.
Demolish
Charge up a powerful attack against a tower over 3s, while within 600 range of it. The charged attack deals 100 (+35% of your max health) bonus physical damage.
Cooldown: 45sWhy?
Demolish on Pyke allows you to snowball lane kills for early tower damage and team gold advantage.
Bone Plating
After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage.
Duration: 1.5s
Cooldown: 55sWhy?
Bone Plating further empowers your ability to take aggressive trades early. As Pyke you are often diving in to deal damage and Bone Plating can go a long way in ensuring you make it out alive.
Unflinching
Gain 6 - 12 (level scaling) Armor and Magic Resist when crowd controlled and for 2 seconds after.
Why?
The extra bit of Tenacity from Unflinching is huge for allowing you to move freely in fights to deal damage on primary targets and find executions with [R].
Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery: Gain a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will every 2 mins, until 6 min.
Biscuits restore 12% of your missing health. Consuming or selling a Biscuit permanently increases your max health by 30.Why?
Biscuit Delivery further empowers your ability to sustain poke and take aggressive trades with the added sustain.
Cosmic Insight
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18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item HasteWhy?
Cosmic Insight's general utility to great to empowering your ability to get multiple [Q] and [E] CC rotations off.
Deep Water is Calling
Electrocute
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities within 3s deals bonus
adaptive damage .
Damage: 70 - 240 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) damage.
Cooldown: 20s
'We called them the Thunderlords, for to speak of their lightning was to invite disaster.'Why?
Pyke easily able to proc the extra burst damage from Electrocute with a [Q]->[E]->Auto or [R] for massive burst and setup for an [R] execution.
Sudden Impact
Damaging basic attacks and abilities deal a bonus
20 - 80 True Damage based on level to enemy champions after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when leaving stealth for 4s.
Cooldown: 10sWhy?
Pyke benefits massively form the extra Lethality after casting [E]'s dash for extra damage and execution setup.
Grisly Mementos
Collect 1 memento on champion
takedowns , up to 18 total.
Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected. In game modes where vision Trinkets do not exist, instead gain 3 Summoner Spell Haste.Why?
Pyke is naturally a snowballing assassin and as such relies heavily on his ability to snowball and actively pick up kills. Eyeball allows you to further push that into a bigger lead.
Ultimate Hunter
Your ultimate gains
6 Ability Haste, plus an additional5 Ability Haste per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.Why?
More [R] casts means more kills and more gold share with your teammates so that you can easily snowball the game to a victory.
Presence of Mind
Damaging an enemy champion restores 6-50 (80% for ranged) mana or 6 energy.
Takedowns restore 15% of your maximum mana or energy.
Cooldown for damage restoration: 8sWhy?
Presence of Mind is huge for keeping your [R] on a short cooldown. Mid Pyke is all about those huge executions with [R].
Legend: Haste
Gain 1.5 basic ability haste for every Legend stack (
max 10 stacks ).
Earn progress toward Legend stacks for every champion takedown, epic monster takedown, large monster kill, and minion kill.Why?
Tenacity on Pyke mid can be the difference between a pentakill with [R] and dying instantly. Pyke needs to be able to get to his targets to be useful.